Jason Goroncy

Jason Goroncy (b. 1972) is an Australian theologian who teaches at Whitley College, the University of Divinity, in Melbourne, Australia.

From 2008 to 2014, Goroncy was a lecturer and Dean of Studies at the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, New Zealand. Prior to taking up that post, he was engaged, between 1993 and 2008, in pastoral ministry and in teaching, based in Australia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. He is an ordained minister with the Baptist Union of Victoria and the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. His PhD is from the University of St Andrews, in Scotland.

Goroncy has published widely in the areas of public theology, Protestant identity, faith and secularism, theology and the arts, death, and the church.

He also writes for popular audiences, and has contributed to ABC Religion and Ethics and The Conversation.

In 2020, the Australasian Religious Press Association awarded him silver prize for ‘Best Theological Article’ for his essay ‘On the Gifts of Street Art’. Zadok 146, Summer (2019), 13–15.

Writing

Books

• Tikkun Olam – To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2014. ISBN: 9781498262835.
• Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth. London: T&T Clark, 2013. ISBN: 9780567066824.
• Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P.T. Forsyth. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2013. ISBN: 9781498254861.

Selected articles

• ‘Creation, God, and the Coronavirus’. Theology 123, no. 5 (2020), 346–52, with Mark G. Brett.
• ‘Race and Christianity in Australia’. Post-Christendom Studies 4 (2019–2020), 25–74.
• ‘Dying Without a Script: Some Theological Reflections on Voluntary Assisted Dying’. Colloquium 51, no. 1 (2019), 25–39.
• ‘Reformation and Secularity’. Journal of Reformed Theology 12, no. 1 (2018), 3–21.
• ‘Habits as Signs: Some Reflections on the Ethical Shape of Christian Community’. International Journal of Practical Theology 21, no. 1 (2017), 27–41.
• 'Ethnicity, Social Identity, and the Transposable Body of Christ’. Mission Studies 34, no. 2 (2017), 220–45.
• ‘Euthanasia: Some Theological Considerations for Living Responsibly’. Pacifica 29, no. 3 (2016), 221–43.
• ‘The Catholicity of Time in the Work of George Mackay Brown’. Pacifica 29, no. 1 (2016), 22–44.
• ‘Church and Civil Society in the Reformed Tradition: An Old Relationship and a New Communion’. Reformed World 61, no. 3 (2011), 195–210.
• ‘The Elusiveness, Loss, and Cruciality of Recovered Holiness: Some Biblical and Theological Observations’. International Journal of Systematic Theology 10, no. 2 (2008), 195–209.
• ‘“That God May Have Mercy Upon All”: A Review-Essay of Matthias Gockel’s Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election’. Journal of Reformed Theology 2, no. 2 (2008), 113–30.
• Fighting Troll-Demons in Vaults of the Mind and Heart – Art, Tragedy and Sacramentality: Some Observations from Ibsen, Forsyth and Dostoevsky’. Princeton Theological Review 13, no. 1 (2007), 61–85.
• ‘Bitter Tonic for our Time – Why the Church Needs the World: Peter Taylor Forsyth on Henrik Ibsen’. European Journal of Theology 15, no. 2 (2006), 105–18.

Selected chapters in edited volumes

• ‘Sanctification’. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, edited by George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson, 303–16. Chichester: Blackwell, 2020.
• ‘Theologies of the Cross: James Denney and P. T. Forsyth’. In History of Scottish Theology, Volume III: The Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Late-Twentieth Century, edited by David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott, 35–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ‘P. T. Forsyth’. In The T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, edited by Adam J. Johnson, 499–503. London: T&T Clark, 2017.
• ‘Semper Reformanda as a Confession of Crisis’. In Always Being Reformed: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Reformed Theology, edited by David H. Jensen, 43–73. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016.
• ‘John Calvin: Servant of the Word’. In Calvin: The Man and the Legacy, edited by Murray Rae, Peter Matheson and Brett Knowles, 13–40. Hindmarsh: ATF Press, 2014.
• ‘“Tha mi a’ toirt fainear dur gearan”: J. McLeod Campbell and P. T. Forsyth on the Extent of Christ’s Vicarious Ministry’. In Evangelical Calvinism: Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church, edited by Myk Habets and Robert Grow, 253–86. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2012.
• ‘The Final Sanity is Complete Sanctity: Universal Holiness in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (1848–1921)’. In “All Shall Be Well”: Explorations in Universalism and Christian Theology, from Origen to Moltmann, edited by Gregory MacDonald, 249–79. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2011.

External links

• https://jasongoroncy.com/
• https://www.whitley.edu.au/about/our-staff/faculty/rev-dr-jason-goroncy/
• http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6837-6168
• https://hcommons.org/members/jgoroncy/
• https://divinity.academia.edu/JasonGoroncy

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